Recent content by Rocket354

No top player today strays as far from textbook as Billy. Lots of stromg players who can't come close to being pro do stray quite far. Even more bangers do. Draw your own conclusions.

Thanks, that was very helpful. The bolded part above actually seems disallowed as a table-run by the rules (bolded below): It's not clear whether that means the incoming player can't do a combo on the 9 with their first shot, or any shot to get the 7 pts. I'm guessing the latter: to be a 7pt...

Yeah I never understood the full differentiation between the 4pt and 7pt victories. I couldn't find it online, either. Inferring from this thread, if player A breaks, makes a ball other than the 1, misses, and player B runs out then B gets 7 points? But if A breaks, makes the 1 only, misses...

He did make the QF in this US Open, barely losing hill-hill to the eventual champion. It can both be true that no one is on his level and he doesn't win every tournament.

FSR and Shaw are both clear HOFers. The standard is not SVB or Earl, or else there'd be no more than about five people in the HOF. Kim Davenport Rodney Morris Tom Rossman Are all in there (and I just looked at the 2011-2018 inductions). A bunch of "industry titans" are in there. If a US Open...

I started after that, learned by trial and error, and wasted literal decades of my life working 10X as hard for half the results. The fundamentally sound players of today would trounce the top players of the 80s given a time machine. Earl, Sigel, Hall could hang, but pretty much all the others...

I thoroughly enjoyed Rogan's 2hr podcasts when he interviewed FedorX2 and JJ. I've enjoyed a few other guests on topics I know nothing about, because he does his podcast/interview job superbly well. I hope he helps creates more visibility for pool. I, too, would love for him to have FSR on his...

I was unimpressed with Rogan. He voiced his unfiltered opinions, yes, but he added very little of substance or entertainment value. And "very little" might be overstating it. If he wasn't as well known as he is, people would be laughing the amateur pool commentator hack out of the booth.

Yeah, his stroke is painful to watch. If he had proper fundamentals from the start he'd probably be a much better player. He probably could fix it, but that might require something like two years off to completely rebuild his fundamentals and relearn the game with his new, "proper" form. I'm...

Yeah, Bergman hasn't been overly impressive. But neither has anyone else competing for those last couple MC spots.

Looking it up, the Quechuan hotel has 166 rooms total. Between the players being required to stay there and the production staff staying there, even if you assume double-occupancy, it's likely they took up half or more of the entire hotel before any spectators were counted. I'd bet whatever...

I agree with all your points. I really wanted to go, and was in Vegas just before it started, but it was still too much of a logistical nightmare to get there and then home. My best guess as to why Yuma was chosen, and will reapeat: money, of course. The overall cost of production is likely...

Fair enough. I haven't run into that edge case yet, but American-developed might be a better term in those situations.

This is recorded games in Fargo, but it's difficult to get Fargo-rated games on 9ft tables unless one is a pro. Most leagues and most amateur tournaments--that is, most Fargo-rated games--are on 7ft. I, for example, have the majority of my play on my home 9ft table. Any time I go out to play and...

That's why I use the phrase "American-born" because depending on context one is more appropriate. For contrast: when talking MC, Fedor is an American. When talking the US's ability (or lack thereof) to develop talent, we need to discuss American-born players and Fedor definitely does not count.